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Cuesta arriba e por llano: The development of “postpositions” in Spanish and Catalan

Journal of Portuguese Linguistics, 2005
In this article we analyze the formation of Spanish and Catalan phrases with an intransitive locative adverb preceded by a bare noun. These constructions can have a meaning of path and direction (i. e. Sp. río abajo, Cat.
Gemma Rigau, Manuel Pérez Saldanya
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Noun classification from predicate-argument structures [PDF]

Proceedings of the 28th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics -, 1990
A method of determining the similarity of nouns on the basis of a metric derived from the distribution of subject, verb and object in a large text corpus is described. The resulting quasi-semantic classification of nouns demonstrates the plausibility of the distributional hypothesis, and has potential application to a variety of tasks, including ...
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Funkcje składniowe przymiotnika ostatni 

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SYNTACTIC FUNCTIONS OF THE POLISH ADJECTIVE OSTATNI ‘THE LAST’ The word ostatni ‘the last’ is one of the ordinal adjectives in contemporary Polish. The unit in question occurs primarily in anteposition to the noun forming nominal phrase.
Maciej Grochowski
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Los sintagmas nominales en textos científicos escritos en español

Estudios de Lingüística, 2004
This study examines a number of textual-discoursal functions performed by noun phrases in scientific articles and students' papers written in Spanish, mainly by those which exhibit great syntactic complexity.
Guillermo  Soto Vergara, Carlos Zenteno Bustamante   +1 more
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The noun/verb and predicate/argument structures [PDF]

Lingua, 2009
Previously, establishing a correspondence between the noun/verb and first order predicate logic's predicate/argument structures has been found problematic (Hurford, 2003a,b). The present paper argues that the predicate/argument system of natural language is more complex than that of first order predicate logic, with up to three levels of predicates and
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Definiteness without determiners in German

Glossa, 2021
The paper investigates conditions for the bare occurrence of noun phrases in the topic position of specificational copula clauses in German. It is shown that this is a predicate position for non-referential NPs.
Ljudmila Geist
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Adjective Syntax and (the absence of) noun raising in the DP [PDF]

, 2008
The paper is structured as follows. Section 2.1 introduces the basic classes of adjectives that constitute the factual core of the paper. Section 2.2 summarizes in greater detail the X° and the XP movement approaches to word order variation within the DP.
Alexiadou, Artemis
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A Bird's Eye View of English Grammar: Connecting the Dots in Two Dimensions

TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Over the past few decades, discussions on grammar instruction have primarily focused on teaching methodologies, such as whether grammar should be taught explicitly or implicitly, and whether the focus should be on form or forms. This paper, however, shifts the focus to grammar itself, aiming to provide a “shape” for pedagogical grammar.
Akira Tajino, Yoshitaka Kato
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Pour un traitement syntactico-sémantique des verbes de couleur rougir, bleuir, verdir et jaunir

Lexique, 2019
This paper proposes a study of the polysemy of four colour verbs (rougir, bleuir, verdir and jaunir) based on Dubois & Dubois-Charlier’s (1997) electronic dictionary Les Verbes Français.
Claudine Salinas-Kahloul
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Semantics of nouns and nominal number [PDF]

, 2010
In the present paper, I will discuss the semantic structure of nouns and nominal number markers. In particular, I will discuss the question if it is possible to account for the syntactic and semantic formation of nominals in a parallel way, that is I ...
Wiese, Heike
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